gnome-screensaver-3.6.1

Introduction to GNOME Screensaver

The GNOME Screensaver package contains a screen saver and locker designed to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop. It supports locking down of configuration settings, has translations into many languages and convenient user switching.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.2 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Screensaver Dependencies

Required

D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.100.2, gnome-desktop-3.6.2 and Linux-PAM-1.1.6

Recommended

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-screensaver

Installation of GNOME Screensaver

Install GNOME Screensaver by running the following commands:

sed -i 's|etc/pam\.d"|etc"|' data/Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-screensaver \
            --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i 's|etc/pam\.d"|etc|' data/Makefile.in: This command is used so that an erroneous message to copy the PAM configuration file is not displayed.

--with-pam-prefix=/etc: This parameter is used so that the Linux PAM configuration file for the GNOME Screensaver application is installed in the correct location.

Configuring GNOME Screensaver

Config Files

/etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver

Configuration Information

Linux PAM Configuration

The default GNOME Screensaver configuration file does not work with a BLFS system. Replace the existing file with one that can be used on a BLFS system by issuing the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver

auth     include        system-auth
auth     optional       pam_gnome_keyring.so

account  include        system-account
password include        system-password
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver
EOF
chmod -v 644 /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver

Contents

Installed Programs: gnome-screensaver and gnome-screensaver-command
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver

Short Descriptions

gnome-screensaver

is a screensaver and screen-locking program designed to work seamlessly with the GNOME Desktop.

gnome-screensaver-command

is a tool used for controlling an already running instance of GNOME Screensaver.

Last updated on 2013-02-11 18:51:17 +0000